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The Human Safety Newsletter is Out

September 20, 2024 by Admin 4 Comments

Human Dymensions Newsletter 2014 Quarterly Newsletter If you are over boring safety newsletters about legislation updates, recent fines and the latest PPE flooding your inbox then here is a Safety Newsletter worth reading. You can subscribe here: http://www.humandymensions.com/mailing-list … [Read more...] about The Human Safety Newsletter is Out

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: safety newsletter, satisficing

Making Safety Better by Using Our Adaptive Toolbox

August 4, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

The excellent work of Gerd Gigerenzer introduces us to the limitations of rationality and the need to validate our ‘adaptive toolbox’. In several of Gigerenzer’s books he shows how our use of statistical data is mostly ineffective and disconnected from reality. Gigerenzer shows that injury data in … [Read more...] about Making Safety Better by Using Our Adaptive Toolbox

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: adaptive toolbox, Safety, satisficing

Be Alert, Safety Needs More Lerts

July 13, 2024 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

I recently read a claim by a Safety Consultant that they could eliminate injuries and improve safety culture by stopping humans from making errors - WT? Reminds me of the saying “The floggings will continue until morale improves”. Ask any elite athlete what happens when they ignore their “muscle … [Read more...] about Be Alert, Safety Needs More Lerts

Filed Under: Robert Long, Simplistic Safety, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: be alert, be careful, neuropsycholgy, rob long, satisficing

Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm

June 28, 2023 by Max Geyer 24 Comments

Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm. Download a copy of the paper (includes the Bibliography for the references):  Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm The prevention of harm is about trying to see, predict and control all things that may deliver an undesired outcome. … [Read more...] about Building resilience trumps the prevention of harm

Filed Under: Max Geyer, Resilience, Social Psychology of Risk, Wicked Problems Tagged With: harm, resilience, satisficing, Zero Harm

Bounded Rationality–How Can Too Much Safety Be Bad For You?

June 28, 2023 by Admin 8 Comments

Bounded Rationality – How Can Too Much Safety Be Bad For You? Someone just sent me a safety slogan: “Safety – It’s Never Enough”, normally I would just brush it off as another meaningless, demoralising aphorism but it got me thinking……Join me in reflecting back over the last few serious incidents … [Read more...] about Bounded Rationality–How Can Too Much Safety Be Bad For You?

Filed Under: Safety Procedures, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: bounded rationality, court cases, flooding, satisficing, this toaster is hot

Holistic Well Being in Risk Differently

June 24, 2023 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Holistic Well Being in Risk Differently The separation of Body/Mind is a perennial problem of Philosophy. Known as ‘the Body Mind Problem’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind%E2%80%93body_problem; https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/discovery-mind-body-problem/ ). The ‘problem’ centres on a debate … [Read more...] about Holistic Well Being in Risk Differently

Filed Under: Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: AIHS BoK Chapter on Ethics, collective unconscious, holistic safety, satisficing, wellbeing

Models From Social Sensemaking

June 24, 2023 by Rob Sams Leave a Comment

Models From Social Sensemaking First published here In this piece I introduce you to two of the semiotic models developed in my first book Social Sensemaking. Firstly, The Decision Tree and then The Trade-offs Model. The Decision Tree Why is it challenging to accept that many of our ideas and … [Read more...] about Models From Social Sensemaking

Filed Under: Road Safety, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: decision tree, satisficing, social sensemaking, trade-offs

The Loathing of Limits

January 7, 2023 by Dr Rob Long 2 Comments

The Loathing of Limits I was listening to an ABC podcast called Minefield last week about ‘Needs of the Soul, Hardship’ and heard one of the presenters Scott Stephens say that humans have always had a sense of ‘loathing limits’. Scott Stephens is the Online Editor of Religion and Ethics for the ABC … [Read more...] about The Loathing of Limits

Filed Under: Robert Long Tagged With: satisficing, wicked problems

The Safety Worldview and the Worldview of Safety, Testing Due Diligence

August 13, 2022 by Dr Rob Long Leave a Comment

Following the World Congress on Safety and Health I begin to wonder just how more absurd the safety industry can become. It is clear from the Congress that safety is now the filter through which one views life rather than, life being the filter through which one views safety. When one gets such a … [Read more...] about The Safety Worldview and the Worldview of Safety, Testing Due Diligence

Filed Under: Due Diligence, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: Due Diligence, satisficing, worldview

Understanding Psychological Terminology

August 7, 2022 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

Understanding Psychological Terminology and Applying it to Safety and Risk. More Detail Here: Understanding The Social Psychology of Risk And SafetyAll professions (intentionally and unintentionally) create language, acronyms and discourse that create territory and challenges for understanding. This … [Read more...] about Understanding Psychological Terminology

Filed Under: Psychological Health and Safety, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: education, homeostasis, hubris, learning, psychological, safety psychology, satisficing

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